Scientists have unlocked a new way to make solar panels far more efficient—up to 1,000 times better than current methods. The team at a German university achieved this by engineering ultra-thin, ...

A new type of solar panel is in the works that could be even greener and cheaper to manufacture than current options. The game-changing material is called kesterite, and scientists just found a way to ...

A team from several universities have created a new molecule inspired by our own DNA that can store sunlight for years and ...

Scientists at the Autonomous University of Querétaro in Mexico have discovered how to make perovskite solar cells, a type of thin-film cell, more stable and efficient without using traditional lead ...

As the costs of solar energy generation have dropped, installations have boomed around the world. However, there's work to be done in optimizing the efficiency of photovoltaic technologies and ...

Scientists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) are developing a "reverse solar" panel, called a thermoradiative diode, which generates electricity by emitting infrared light (heat) into cold ...

Have you ever thought it was possible to generate electricity from plants? Well, in Spain, scientists experimented on moss and discovered that it can indeed generate electrical power. In this article, ...

Future lunar bases could be powered by solar cells made on-site from melted moon dust. Building items on the moon, using materials that are already there, would be more practical than shipping them ...

No one seems happier than Haley Henley that the city of Detroit is moving forward with its plan to create large fields of solar panels in neighborhoods to generate power for municipal buildings.

If you've ever looked at your energy bills and thought, "Why am I paying all this money when there's literally free energy beaming down from the sky?", well, you've got a point. While solar panels ...

To get more energy from sunlight, researchers have long searched for alternatives—especially those that work without the complex junctions silicon needs. (CREDIT: CC BY-SA 4.0) Scientists have ...